Navin, Thomas R.

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Biography

Thomas Randall Navin, Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1918. He graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1941 and promptly enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve as an ensign. In 1946, he left the USNR as a Lieutenant and accepted a position of Instructor in Business History at HBS. In 1949, Navin was appointed Assistant Professor of Business History and Assistant Director of Research at HBS. Navin resigned from the HBS faculty in 1955 and moved to Arizona where he opened the Tucson Office Supply Company and taught business policy at the University of Arizona.

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Thomas R. Navin papers

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 58

Scope and Contents: The papers of HBS Assistant Professor of Business History Thomas R. Navin include correspondence, business history class syllabi, unpublished articles, and HBS cases dating from 1947-1955. The majority of the material is correspondence written to and from Navin to colleagues, business associates, and businessmen. Navin's correspondence relates to his pursuance of research projects, interviews, and primary source materials collected by Baker Library for research purposes. Also includes three...

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